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GoldenEar Triton Reference for a large room...

Hi All:

i'm moving into an apartment with a large living room and am considering the GoldenEar Triton Reference speakers.

the issue with the large room (34 ft x 24 ft) is that there is a connected dining room nearby, and it is essentially open to each other, no doors, merely separated by one fireplace, so the bass will "leak" over to the dining room.  furthermore, the dining room has a wide hallway that leads to the kitchen, and there is also no doorway separating the dining room and the kitchen.

with all these connected spaces, my concern is that the bass would be lost or somehow discounted to a degree.  with that in mind, i am thinking of getting the References rather than the GoldenEar 1.R model, as the References have more robust bass drivers.

may i please ask the good folks here for thoughts, ideas, comments?

thank you in advance.

dualmonitors
dualmonitors OP
15 posts
 

thank you @secretguy and @avanti1960.  i appreciate your thoughts and comments.

@secretguy:  may i ask your room's size please?  you mentioned you have the 1s, which i'm not familiar with.  is the model 1s a predecessor of the 1.R?

you mentioned that you can't ever imagine wanting more bass.  sure, i understand, but it is room-dependent, right?  i look forward to hearing about your particular set up so i may be more educated.  

thank you both in advance.

mofojo
2,314 posts
 

I would think with the adjustments they offer should be good to go on the bass end of things. Pretty good size room though! I would be more worried about mids and highs getting lost. I had Triton ones and they were pretty damn good but was in a very different room. 

secretguy
1,861 posts
 

@dualmonitors I should have written Ones...like a pair of Ones.The original model.

I've had them in a couple of rooms. Currently they are used for HT in a pretty lousy setup. In my last house They were used for both HT and stereo. The rooms was about 15 x 25 (guessing)....and it opened to upstairs bedrooms.

The day after watching an action film with explosions etc, we'd have to go through the house straightening all the pic on walls. LOL

I've never run the subs higher than about 12 Oclock.

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fthompson251
613 posts
 

I think the T Ref's will work well. I have the T 1.r's in a dedicated listening room. However it's not as large of space as yours. With the adjustable bass driver you can fine tune the bass manually on the back of the speaker. Also they are really efficient and don't need a lot of power, but if you do have a lot of power they can handle it and probably really fill any room. I drive mine with a 65 WPC tube amp and it works really well with them. My guess is that you will be thrilled with them as they are really good sounding speakers.

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